Hot vegetable holder



March 10, 1942. A. MAlsTo 2,275,536

HOT VEGETABLE HOLDER y Filed July 7, 1939 vll/[[1111 1 v llllllllllllllllllf Patented Mar. 10, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HOT VEGETABLE HOLDER Anthony Maisto, Brooklyn, N. Y. Application July 7, 1939, SerialNo. 283,168

4 Claims.

The present invention relates to an improvement in holders for use in handling hot corn on the cob and other vegetables or articles, and to methods for lmaking such holder.

Devi-ces of this nature are usually made of metal; and if the corn on the lcob is hot, as it usually is, the heat is rapidly transmitted to the holders, and at times heats the holders so hot that they cannot -be held inthe fingers, and thus the function of the holder is defeated.

The present improvement has for its principal advantage the provision of means on such a holder whereby the heat may bedissipated before it reaches the handle portions thereof, and comprises heat radiating or dissipating means between the cob engaging prong and the handle means, thereby to prevent said handle means from `becoming too hot to hold.

Another object of the` invention is to provide an improved method for casting my improved holder.

The foregoing and other features and objects will ybe apprehended as the herein description proceeds, and it will be obvious that modifications may 'be made in the structure herein disclosed without departing from the spirit hereof or the scope of the Iappended claims.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a side View of one of the holders, partially in section;

Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 2 2, Fig, 1, looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3 3, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows; and

Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line 4 4, Fig. l, looking in the direction of the arrows.

The holder, the handle of which is denoted `lily H, and the prong thereof, denoted by I, is preferably made of cast metal, such as pewter or a lead alloy and may .be polished and plated as desired. The handle and prong are connected `by a stem l provided with radiating webs 3. The handle and stem are preferably hollow.

The prong I, as may be seenin Fig. 2, is preferably pointed and of diamond shape, in lcross section, this form enabling the user to easily engage the point 2 into the cob C, shown dotted in Fig. l. Two of these holders are customarily used, one on each end of the cob, but only one is here` shown, `it being understood that the other may be used.

The handle H may be of polygonal cross section, in the present instance shown square in cross section, as in Fig. 4.

The handle wall 4, Fig. 1, may be compara- 55 cating thin heat radiating webs 3, preferably of circular form, said webs lbeing preferably integral with the holder, thereby to eiiciently radiate heat to l() atmosphere, Ifrom the cob, as it passes from the Cobb through the prong and stem to the holder. These radiating webs intercept and disperse a Volume of heat from the ycob sufficient to keep the handles H of the holders from becoming too hot 5 to hold in the ngers.

In the manufacture of the holder, the mould may .be made of a. metal of higher melting point than the metal from which the holder is made, and after the melted holder metal is poured into .20 the mould, the mould being provided with a pouring aperture at the handle end, the mould is turned upside down and the unchilled and still moulten center core of the handle Iand stem is poured out, leaving the already chilled metal in place as the prong and outer wall of the handle and stem.

Having thus described `claimed is:

1. A metal holder comprising a prong of anthe vinvention what is gular cross-section; a hollow handle alined with the prong and open at the end remote from the prong and of sm-all cross-section at the end nearer the prong; a hollow stem alined with and connecting the prong and handle and having its hollow communicating with the hollow of the handle; said stem Icomprising narrow portions of small diameter, and intervening spaced disklike radiating webs of large diameter having large radiating faces adapted to receive and radiate 4J heat transmitted from the prong.

2. A one-piece holder of cast metal of medi-um low melting point such as pewter or the like for use in handling and eating corn or other hot articles, said holder comprising a prong of long taper and diamond shaped cross-section adapted to be forced into the article and hold the same non-rotative thereon and to receive heat from the article; a thin hollow handle of angular cross-section alined with the prong and of large diameter and open at the end remote from the prong yand of smaller cross-section at the end nearer the prong; a partly hollow stem alined with and connecting the prong and handle and having its hollow communiwith the interior of the vhandle,

the outer and inner faces of the hollow handle and stem serving to radiate heat; said stem comprising narrow portions of small diameter adapted to limit the -passage of heat from the prong toward the handle, and intervening disklike radiating webs `coaxial with the prong and handle and of larger diameter than either, each web having large radiating faces adapted to receive and radiate heat from the small amount transmitted by the narrow portions from the prong, whereby each narrow portion more remote from the prong receives progressively less heat to be radiated and a relatively small amount of heat reaches the handle; said Ifaces being large enough to radiate enough heat to keep the handle .comfortably Cool when the prong is imbedded in very hot articles.

3. A holder as in claim l, the hollow of the stem Ibeing nearly half :as large in diameter as the stem, and extending from the hollow of the handle las far as the web nearest the prong, thereby to greatly reduce the cross-sectionof the stem at the webs, to allow the conduction of only a small amount of heat; each web having a large radiating face `adapted to receive and radiate heat from the small amount transmitted from the `prong by the narrow portions of reduced cross-section, whereby each narrow portion more remote from the prong receives lprogressively less heat to be radiated and .a relatively small amount of heat reaches the handle.

4. A holder kas in claim 1, the handle being laterally imperforate, whereby heat from the interior of the stem and handle is prevented from .passing to the fingers pressed upon the handle, Hout is conducted out at the end of the handle laway Vfrom the ngers.

ANTHONY MAISTO. 

